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Every Platform Grades Its Own Homework : Scott on the ROAS Trap

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The Paid Traffic Truth : Meta's New Customer Conversion Just Jumped 66%

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The Paid Traffic Truth : The New Customer Markup Your Dashboard Hides

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Why Agencies Shouldn't Fear the Numbers

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Your Data Is Being Estimated — And Nobody Told You

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How Meta, Google, and TikTok Changed Your Numbers Without Telling You

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Meta Is Now Charging to Reach Your Customer

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How Link Necklaces Cut Meta nCAC 22% and Nearly Doubled New Customers

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How to Track ChatGPT Ads the Right Way

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Why Your Meta CPA Is Lying to You in 2026

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The Monday Routine That Stops Wasted Ad Spend : The Five Forces Playbook

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How the Optimization Force Improves Campaign Performance

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Why High ROAS Isn’t Enough : Scaling with the Outcome Force

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Boost ROI with Google Analytics Attribution & Key Event Insights

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 17, 2025 6:47:49 PM

Boost Your ROI with Google Analytics Attribution Insights

As digital marketers, we've all been there. You're staring at Google Analytics, trying to make sense of the jumbled mess of data, and frankly, feeling frustrated. Google Analytics attribution can feel impossible, especially with all the recent changes.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Marketing Attribution Meta Ads Manager Channel Grouping Issues
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Solving Meta Algorithm Problems: Impact on Tech and Ads

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 10, 2025 6:34:56 PM

Solving Meta Algorithm Problems: The Impact on Tech and Ads

For digital marketers using Meta ads, algorithm problems are a common headache. These issues aren't just annoying; they can significantly impact ad targeting and your bottom line. Understanding and addressing these problems is crucial for success with paid media and reaching your target audience. This article breaks down common symptoms, explains why they happen, and provides actionable steps to overcome them.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Ad Performance Issues Meta Ads Algorithm Paid Social Media Marketing Attribution Software
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Boost Sales with Smart Facebook Prospecting Campaigns

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 20, 2025 1:37:16 PM

Boost Sales with Smart Facebook Prospecting Campaigns

Facebook prospecting campaigns offer a massive potential audience for digital marketers. But are your campaigns truly reaching new customers? Or are you just retargeting the same old leads? We’ll show you how to analyze your campaigns, reveal what Facebook’s hiding, and get those prospecting ads dialed in.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Facebook Ads Strategy Lead Generation
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Increase Average Order Value (AOV) Today | Wicked Reports

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Jan 8, 2025 10:09:32 AM

Smart Strategies to Increase Average Order Value Today

For years, we’ve been obsessed with helping businesses grow. Not incremental improvements, but transformative growth. This often hinges on one metric: average order value. Whether you’re an eCommerce giant or an independent blogger, increasing AOV is crucial for sustainable success.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution customer lifetime value (CLV) upselling
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Meta Automatic Campaign Adjustments: Should You Be Worried?

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Nov 8, 2024 6:23:21 PM

Meta Automatic Campaign Adjustments: Should You Be Worried?

Meta quietly rolled out a new feature for ad campaigns – and frankly, it’s causing a bit of a stir in the digital marketing world. You may have already heard whispers of “Meta automatic campaign adjustments.”

I’m here to pull back the curtain on what they are, why they might not be as magical as Meta wants you to think, and how these automatic adjustments could potentially harm your campaigns. Let’s face it – running marketing campaigns in today’s landscape is about as straightforward as navigating a maze blindfolded. Between setting budgets, targeting audiences, and crafting compelling ad copy, you’ve got a lot on your plate. That's precisely why Meta’s shiny, new feature – promising to handle the heavy lifting of optimizing your ads with automatic campaign adjustments – can sound oh-so-tempting. But, before you hand over the reins to Meta’s algorithm, it’s crucial to understand both the potential benefits and pitfalls.

Topics: attribution windows Attribution Health multi-touch attribution Meta Automation Meta Ads Automatic Campaign Adjustments Ad Campaign Optimization
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Attribution Modeling Types Explained : 2026 Guide

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Oct 11, 2024 9:04:50 PM

ATTRIBUTION MODELING TYPES EXPLAINED : A 2026 GUIDE TO CHOOSING THE RIGHT ONE


Every marketer wants the answer to one question - what's actually working? It's easy to spread budget across channels and hope. The hard part — the part that separates brands that scale from brands that guess — is knowing how each touch actually contributes to winning a customer. That's what attribution modeling is for.

Attribution models move you past surface metrics to show which marketing activities influence which parts of the customer journey. Used well, they replace guesswork with data you can allocate budget on. Used badly — or trusted blindly from a single ad platform — they can point you confidently in exactly the wrong direction. This guide covers the main model types, when each fits, and the catch that undermines all of them if you're not careful.

Topics: Wicked Reports Attribution Health multi-touch attribution ad spend optimization marketing ROI
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Boost ROI with Google Analytics Attribution & Key Event Insights

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Sep 16, 2024 4:30:08 PM

The skill in which Meta (Facebook & Instagram) takes credit for a sale is astounding.

Topics: Facebook attribution windows Facebook conversions multi-touch attribution Marketing Attribution Facebook Ads ROAS Top of Funnel Strategy
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Mission Control: Q2 2024 ROI & Tracking Updates

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Dec 13, 2023 2:07:35 PM

Introducing the Enhanced Mission Control: Smarter ROI Tracking and Customer Journey Insights

Prepare to be wowed by our latest updates released in Q2 2024– a suite of new features and changes designed to elevate your experience:

Topics: Wicked Reports multi-touch attribution Mission Control Customer Journey Tracking Marketing Analytics Customer Journey Mapping HubSpot App Marketplace eCommerce Analytics Platform AI-Powered Marketing
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How to Choose Attribution Software : 2026 Buyer's Guide

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Apr 21, 2023 9:55:11 AM

HOW TO CHOOSE MARKETING ATTRIBUTION SOFTWARE IN 2026: THE BUYER'S GUIDE


If you're evaluating attribution tools, you've probably noticed they all claim the same thing - accurate, multi-touch, full-funnel measurement. They can't all be right and the differences that matter aren't the ones on the feature-comparison grids. This is a practitioner's guide to the questions that actually separate a tool that will change how you spend from one that just gives you a prettier version of the numbers you already can't trust.

Topics: Wicked Reports attribution models Ecommerce multi-touch attribution last click attribution
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Last-Click Attribution for Ecommerce : When to Use It

By Scott Desgrosseilliers on Feb 17, 2023 11:43:11 AM

LAST-CLICK ATTRIBUTION FOR ECOMMERCE: WHEN IT'S THE RIGHT TOOL, AND WHEN IT'S QUIETLY LYING TO YOU


Last-click attribution has a bad reputation in serious marketing circles and mostly it's deserved. But "mostly" isn't "always." Last-click is a legitimate tool for a narrow set of jobs - the problem is that ad platforms made it the silent default for everyone, including the many businesses it actively misleads. This is a guide to telling those situations apart - when last-click is genuinely the right call and when defaulting to it is costing you money.

Topics: Wicked Reports attribution models Ecommerce multi-touch attribution last click attribution